Listing Questions

When Every Passage Holds the Answer, RAG Needs a New Shape

Most RAG pipelines retrieve a single top passage and call it a day. But some questions don't work that way. Listing questions demand every relevant passage, not just the highest-scoring one. This pipeline walks through that silent failure point and the pipeline shape that actually handles it. It's a practical look at a real limitation, and the reasoning is clear. For readers who want to go deeper, "Exploring Paragraph Structure: How LLMs Navigate Token Space" offers a useful follow-up on how token coordinates shape retrieval.